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Welcome to WILLIAMSBURG: the hip, upstart, intellectual mecca of New York City, the land where people would rather be artists than make art. Brad Saville’s award-winning “Williamsburg” is a voyeuristic picture about seven artists living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and their comical, usually absurd, intertwining lives.

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    NY Press features “Williamsburg”

    December 9, 2009

    NY Press features “Williamsburg”

    Exerts: “No other recent Brooklyn product defines its people by the nature of their neighborhood more than Brad  Saville’s  Williamsburg. A riff on Richard Linklater’s Slacker, Williamsburg basically unfolds as a series of static shots following various despondent personalities, each of whom claims to be an artist but fails to produce any actual art.

    Saville, a playwright in [...]

    Splice Today’s film critic John Lingan: “Great cast and a Sympathetic Director”

    October 28, 2008

    Splice Today’s film critic John Lingan: “Great cast and a Sympathetic Director”

    Williamsburg is “a comedy dressed in Noir clothes…  A great cast and a sympathetic director.”
    -John Lingan, SpliceToday.com
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    Syracuse New Times review of Williamsburg: “Plenty of sharp dialogue to spare… Hilarious.”

    April 28, 2007

    Syracuse New Times review of Williamsburg: “Plenty of sharp dialogue to spare… Hilarious.”

    “The chronology hops all over the map in this Brooklyn-based indie comedy, which somehow links the travails of insufferable writer Truman (Penny Bittone) with a chain-smoking sidewalk painter named Brother James (Russ Russo), music-video director Will (David Marcus), budding filmmaker and part-time mugger Miguel (Evertz I. Saenz-Perez), his sister Anna (Anna Lamadrid) and sultry Slovakian [...]

    Film Threat Magazine gives Williamsburg 3.5 stars! “Memorable Achievement”

    August 1, 2006

    Film Threat Magazine gives Williamsburg 3.5 stars! “Memorable Achievement”

    WILLIAMSBURG
    by Phil Hall
    (2006-07-31)
    2006, Un-rated, 99 minutes, Cadillac Films

    Aspiring cinematographers would do well to seek out a small indie feature called “Williamsburg” to study and gain inspiration from what cinematographer Will Sargent and director Brad Saville achieved from behind the camera. Shot in black-and-white, “Williamsburg” has a striking visual style that is uncommon in today’s independent [...]